The proportion of population who use legal and illegal drugs has remained stable or trended down. Fewer young people are using, but the proportion of older people using drugs and alcohol has grown.
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Trauma can be passed down from generation to generation. What steps should adults take to try and break the cycle?
Cigarette brands present images of slender, stylish women and strong, independent men. Plain packaging breaks this positive brand identity for some smokers.
The recent decision to effectively ban e-cigarettes will hurt poor and disadvantaged smokers the most.
Obesity is one of the factors behind a large rise in cancer rates among women.
An “endgame” approach focuses on ending the tobacco pandemic, and foresees a tobacco-free future.
Snoring has been linked to serious health conditions such as obstructive sleep apnoea and even cardiovascular disease.
We know that smoking and drinking is bad for your memory, but combined, they’re so much worse.
Epigenetics may explain why children of mothers who smoke during pregnancy are more likely to use substances later in life.
Many fork out considerable money in pharmaceuticals along the way in the attempt to shake their smoking.
A collaboration of Australia’s leading scientists, clinicians and health organisations announce ten priority policy actions needed for Australia to reach its health targets by the year 2025.
The effects of long-term tobacco smoking on our mental faculties such as memory and concentration are only now becoming known.
An Australian study of 204,953 people also confirmed the two in three death rate from smoking.
Developing brand new treatments and cures isn’t the only way to achieve a major reduction in cancer deaths worldwide.
To discourage smoking, insurance companies charge higher premiums for smokers. This is having an unexpected consequence: rather than quit smoking, poor people are quitting insurance.
Almost half of pregnant Indigenous women smoke compared to one in eight in the non-Indigenous population. This means 7,000-9,000 Indigenous babies every year are exposed to smoking in the womb.
Over the past decade, every researcher’s email inbox has been crammed daily with junk from what have come to be known as predatory journals and conferences. Last week I had 21 offers to send my non-existent…
The Uruguayan government’s victory over Philip Morris should embolden other countries to introduce stronger tobacco-control policies.
Smoking rates among the poor are almost double the rates for middle-class Americans. Yet we are not providing poor people with the medical help they need to stop. We will pay billions for that later.
The New Zealand government has decided to reorient its priorities in tobacco control. It has announced it will be pulling 73% of its previous funding support for tobacco control advocacy. The only money…
Principais colaboradores
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst, UMass Amherst
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Research Officer, Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Adjunct researcher, University of Tasmania
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Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Business Economics, University of Bath
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Professor of Public Health/Director, Tobacco Control Research Group, University of Bath
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Reader in Social Sciences and Health, Cardiff University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Deakin University
